Au-Dessus creates post-black metal from Vilnius since 2017, their French name meaning 'above' signaling an ascendent, transcendent vision of black metal. Their Lithuanian-French cultural intersection produces atmospheric compositions that rise above genre conventions.

Aube channels post-black metal from Metz in Lorraine since 2020, their French name meaning 'dawn' guiding compositions that explore the liminal moment between darkness and light. From this fortified city near the German border, they craft atmospheric metal of subtle beauty.

Yorkshire black metal project Aubzagl channel bleak, windswept atmospheres through raw production and hypnotic repetition. Active since 2018, the project explores the desolate beauty of the English moorlands through a lens of second-wave black metal aesthetics.

Audet Mori is a depressive black metal project from Germany, formed in 2024, whose Latin name meaning 'dares to die' captures the despairing essence of the DSBM tradition. The project channels existential anguish through the raw, emotionally extreme framework of depressive black metal.

Aufschwung practices black metal from Yekaterinburg as of 2025. Their German name meaning 'upswing' or 'recovery' brings an unexpectedly optimistic title to black metal from the Urals.

Augmented Existence creates atmospheric black metal from an undisclosed Finnish location since 2018. Their enhancement-focused name suggests black metal that transcends its basic form, reaching for expanded emotional and sonic territories.

Augmented Fury merges black and death metal from Tromsø, Norway's Arctic city above the 69th parallel, since 2023. Their enhanced-rage name drives extreme metal forged in the polar darkness and midnight sun of the far north.

Augrimmer is a black metal band from Gunzburg in Swabia, Germany, active since 2009, whose discography spanning Autumnal Heavens, From the Lone Winters Cold, Nothing Ever Was, Moth and the Moon, and beyond is characterized by primitive old-school yet atmospheric black metal with rich melodies. Their releases appear in limited physical editions, including hand-numbered vinyl pressings of two hundred fifty copies.

Augure Funèbre channels black metal from the southern Cévennes town of Alès since 2012, their French name meaning "funeral omen" setting the tone for over a decade of dark, foreboding compositions. Their Gard department origins connect them to Languedoc's extreme metal underground.